Population and demography

For much of its history, human population growth increased at a glacial pace.

International migration has reached new heights since the 1960s.

Despite the twenty-first century's often being referred to as the Asian Century-indicating hope for economic growth and the rebalancing of the global order-population aging and stagnation present an existential threat to the success of China and other territories of Pacific Asia (namely Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea).

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Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging.

This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society.

This book focuses, in seven chapters, on the perspectives and solutions that different research groups offer to try to address problems related to SDG 14: Life Below Water.

This book presents a critical analysis and examination of the major theories and social issues in the social construction of aging and death.

This book addresses the challenge of understanding human life.

This textbook offers a comprehensive overview of applied demography by presenting both basic concepts and methodological techniques.

This volume is being published at a critical time in U.

This is the first book that takes a theoretical approach to the effects of international immigration by considering the current economic topics confronted by more highly developed countries such as Japan.

This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU.

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts.

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other.

On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health.

This book explores the life of economist and social scientist Wilhelm Lexis and the key demographic instrument named after him: the Lexis diagram.

This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B.

The book examines the history of abortion and contraception in Modern Greece from the time of its creation in the 1830s to 1967, soon after the Pill became available.

This book examines the use of agent-based modelling (ABM) in population studies, from concepts to applications, best practices to future developments.

The transitional phase from pre-older adult to older adult affects the wellbeing of the concerned person economically, physically, and psychologically.

On January 29, 2001, President George W.

Torture and the Twilight of Empire looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962.

Sex, smoking, and social stratification are three very different social phenomena.

How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time?

An in-depth look at how U.

This book provides an in-depth investigation of citizenship and nationalism in connection with the Rohingya community.

This cutting edge collection examines Japan's population issue, exploring how declining demographic trends are affecting Japan's social structure, specifically in the context of Greater Tokyo, life infrastructure, public finance and the economy.

In this book, the author seeks to understand China's urban redevelopment from the theoretical perspective of the local entrepreneurial state.

Epidemiology and Demography in Public Health provides practical guidance on planning and implementing surveillance and investigation of disease and disease outbreaks.

For most of the vast span of human history, economic growth was all but nonexistent.

Drawing on nearly thirty years of prior analyses of growth, aging, and diversity in Texas populations and households, the authors of Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge examine key issues related to future Texas population change and its socioeconomic implications.

A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Agewhen there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteenand explores what it could mean for our collective future.

Fertility, Biology, and Behavior: An Analysis of the Proximate Determinants presents the proximate determinants of natural fertility.

Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration, this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary debates about migration and citizenship.

This edited volume focuses on social welfare and medicine within the French Empire and brings together important currents in both imperial history and the history of medicine.

The institution of the family is by far the most important of all the societal networks in which the lives of men, women and children are involved.

This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing.

This book examines the fundamentals of Jewish demography and sociology around the world.

This book examines economic transfers across generations and genders from a European perspective.

Modern labor economics has continued to grow and develop since the first volumes of this Handbook were published.

This devastating account of the work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal is a monumental case study in the uses and abuses of social science.

This completely updated third edition of Millennials in America provides a wide range of characteristics profiling the demographic, social, and economic status of the Millennial generation.

This book focuses on how to improve the collection, analysis and responsible use of data on global migration and international mobility.

This book examines social change in Hungary, commencing with the period of late-stage socialism, the country's immediate post-communist transition, its subsequent consolidation, and the emergence of authoritarian leadership since 2010.

This book examines the contemporary state of the capitalist economyand its future trajectory in a world characterized by multiple crises from population growth to ecological damage.

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns.